一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
子曰：君子病無能焉，不病人之不己知也。The Master said: The gentleman is troubled by his own lack of ability, not by others' failure to know him.
What this chapter says
一孔按：君子只担心自己没有能力，不担心别人不了解自己。常有人问：“君子病无能焉，不病人之不己知也”，君子担心的是什么？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子说，君子担心自己没有本领，不担心别人不知道自己。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Same line elsewhere
- Analects 4.14 不患無位，患所以立。不患莫己……
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
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常The common reading
“君子病无能焉，不病人之不己知也”，君子担心的是什么？
见Cross-references
- 子曰：君子病无能 Elsewhere in the Analects：子曰：不患无位，患所以立；不患莫己知，求为可知也。（《论语》集注分章4.14（底本第 55 页））
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 八
“病猶患也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以病己无能而非怨人不知，才德须学成；钱特别反对贵德一概贱能，朱本章仅存经文不另注。 |
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